16 NEWSBOYS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 GRANTS MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Class Clowns program for young people in the Wimmera region With Newsboys Foundation support, the successful Comedy Festival initiative, Class Clowns is being expanded into rural Victoria. The Festival is working with Anglicare Victoria to introduce the Class Clowns program and comedy workshops – facilitated by comedians including Damian Callinan (writer/producer of The Merger) and stand-up Bart Freebairn – into schools in the Wimmera region. Young people also visited Melbourne to attend the 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. comedyfestival.com.au “The workshops held in the Wimmera region in March 2018 were a huge success. It resulted in a bunch of students also attending the National Grand Final of our Class Clowns Comedy Competition at The Forum during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.” Melbourne Youth Orchestras Melbourne International Comedy Festival Melbourne Recital Centre